You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

There's a bad moon on the rise.

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke

Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.

As long as we're together

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.